spiritualize

Example Sentences

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Though I admit, I myself am tempted to spiritualize decomposition.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2018

It also did so on a grander scale, binding an immense continent with tracks and producing trains of such magnificence that they moved Nathaniel Hawthorne to exclaim: "They spiritualize travel!"

From Time Magazine Archive

In a country without antique monuments, the image of Arcadia serves to spiritualize the past.

From Time Magazine Archive

She frenetically tries to spiritualize materialism�to set up a kind of materialist morality in which "money is the root of all good" because it stands for man's creativity.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may be enjoyed by them when they wait upon God in silence, or retire into the light of the Lord, and receive those divine impressions which quicken and spiritualize the internal man.

From A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson, Thomas